Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-11-25
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
A new NJ. f. Church will be built
at Orting next Spring.

A new postoffice has been estab-
lished at Fruitland, Stevens county.
A school of about thirty whales were
sporting around in Puget Sound few
days ago.
In the late census, Walla Walla is
credited with 1929 inhabitants, gain
in two years Of 1853.
A post Office has been established at
Tuxedo, Whatcom county, with Saml.
Burgas as postmaster.
Rev. Father Eagan, of Walla Walla,
has married just 1879 couple, not one
of whom ever applied for divorce.
Four hundred and seventy-five acres
of land lying northeast of Spokane
Falls sold the other day for $4,000.
The Columbia River cannerymen
are paying self-imposed tax of one
cent per case for support of the hatch
cry.
The rate of taxation in King county,
outside of Seattle, is twenty mills. The
city tax is seventeen and one half
mills.
In Walla Walla county they are
2,17O persons between the age of Is
and so, subject to draft for military
service.
During the past year the various
postoffices in Washington Territory is
sued money orders aggregating 1884,
O3O.55.
A piece of timber land containing
$50 acres, situated near Astoria, sold
the other day for $4,25O cash, to mill
company.
Freight and passenger receipts at
Tacoma during October amounted to
sos, 900. The September receipts were
$13O,OOO
S. H. Berry has resigned his posi-
ton us chief clerk in the office of the
Surveyor General and returned to
Chehalis.
A Portland firm secured the contract
for the brick work of the Northern Pa
cifc headquarter building to be built
at Tacoma.
Captain Clancy, is understood will
soon 80 to Victoria to act as superin-
tendent for the Canadian Pacifc Navi-
CATION company.
Among the estimates of the light
house bureau board is one for an APP
preparation of $50 900 for lighthouse
at Gray's Harbor.
Ezra Meeker, the Washington hop
king, has 10000 pounds. of hops,
most Of which will be shipped to Eng
land and Japan.
The old settlers of Chehalis county
have held a meeting at Montesano
and propose to have reunion of all
old settlers in the county.
Major Rodgers says there are six
good railroad passes in the Cascade
range, and that he found Northern
Pacific stakes in the best four.
The Treasury Department is adj
vertising for the material necessary to
construct the first story of the Govern.
ment building at Port Townsend.
Capt. John Cushing, formerly Of
Puget Sound, is now captain of the
steamship Susquehamna, on one of the
lines between New York and Ham
burg.
Sunday morning at 4 o'clock N. H
Martin, Jr., died at the residence o.
his father, in Seattle, of Bright's dis
ease Of the kidneys, at the age of 2;
years and IL months.
The little steamer Estela sunk al
Tacoma a few days ago. She wa.
bailed out and righted without being
injured. The steamer Zephyr, which
was sunk few days ago is now all o
K.
Whatcom Democrat: Joseph Richie
of the Nooksack valley, raised an Earl!
Rose potato which tipped the scale a
five pounds and can furnish % pota
toes of this variety which will weigl
one bushel.
Mrs. d. P. Whitney, a lady sixty
four years Of age, residing in Hough
ton, sends to the agricultural editor o
the Post-Intelligencer a collection o
fifty-nine varities of flowers foun'
growing in her garden in October.
There is about IA inches of "th
beautiful" on the switchback. Train
arrive ut Tacoma with an inch or tw
of snow Of the top of the cars almos
daily. The monster snow plows ar
being gotten in readiness for worl
should there be a heavy fall of the ic
fleece.
During the month Of October ther
were hauled over the Columbia
Puget Sound Railroad to Seattle, fror
the various m Zines, 81 600 tons of Goa
5000 tons more than during any pr'
vious month in the history of tn
road.
Eighty thousand tons of wheat &
forty cents per bushel in CARTEL
county this season will circulate or
million and fifty-six thousand ($1 ,O56
OOO) dollars among the people of ths
county. That would give each maj